We are in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.
I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.
If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet, such a book would more likely be found amid the debris than a comprehensible medical text.
We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.
A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.
